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Title:Ball Four
Author:Jim Bouton
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 504 pages
Published:July 1st 1990 by Wiley (first published January 1st 1970)
Categories:Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don't ordinarily follow baseball.

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Original Title: Ball Four
ISBN: 0020306652 (ISBN13: 9780020306658)
Edition Language: English

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Rereading Ball Four for the first time since 1970, I was struck by how todays readers would be baffled by the impact that the book originally had on the sports world. In an era when its not unusual for sports figures to tweet their comments about coaches, fans, and fellow players immediately following a game, Im not sure that todays fan realizes what a big deal Ball Four once was. Pitcher Jim Boutons candor about his teammates (past and present), coaches, managers and Major League Baseball

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. Why you looking at me that way, BOWton?This is probably the most controversial book and the most honest book ever written about baseball. It is interesting how the words honest and controversial seem to travel together like a Harley Davidson with a sidecar. Jim Bouton won two World Series games in 1964 with the New York Yankees, but in 1965 he developed

Jim Bouton wrote a funny, honest book about baseball. He chronicles his own struggles to re-establish his pitching career after a promising start with the New York Yankees. Worth re-reading.

Fantastic. Jim Bouton is an American hero. Also he invented Big League Chew.I can only hope there's someone who's as big a curmudgeon as Jim is in the big leagues now.

This review thing asks: "What did you think?" My answer: "Jim Bouton is full of shit."I try to refrain from using profanity in things like book reviews, but in this case, it is the only way to categorize it.Apparently, when this book was first released, it cause a big stir in the baseball community and in the fandom of America. Mostly, I can see why: it is boring, and Bouton takes all 400+ pages to whine about money, coaches, his knuckleball, wanting to start/pitch, and he relishes every

My mom recently tried to read Bouton's baseball diary, but couldn't get past March 7. I picked it up and am rereading it yet again, enjoying it as much as ever. I've read it more than 20 times and it still means so much to me. If any book could be said to have changed my life, it would be this one.Bouton was an iconoclast, a breed apart from most other ballplayers, and not just because he read books that didn't have pictures. He spoke up for himself, he stuck to his guns (even as he knew it was

Prior to 1970, the rule in baseball was you better not talk publicly about what the sport and its participants were really like in the clubhouse, on the field, and traveling from city to city. But then along came Jim Bouton. Once a flame-throwing, twenty-game winner and starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, Bouton lost his fastball and found himself working middle relief for the expansion Seattle Pilots, desperately trying to develop a knuckleball and taking notes about pro ball player